Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan written by Isabella L. Bird and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intrepid explorer recounts her 1878 excursion into the back country of the Far East. Bird describes the vicissitudes of her journey — the difficulties as well as the excitement and rewards.

Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan written by Bird and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unbeaten written by Mike Stanton and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Prince of Providence, a revelatory biography of Rocky Marciano, the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. The son of poor Italian immigrants, with short arms and stubby legs, Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary heavyweight champions like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson: He never lost a professional fight. His record was a perfect 49-0. Unbeaten is the story of this remarkable champion who overcame injury, doubt, and the schemes of corrupt promoters to win the title in a bloody and epic battle with Jersey Joe Walcott in 1952. Rocky packed a devastating punch with an innocent nickname, “Suzie Q,” against which there was no defense. As the champ, he came to know presidents and movie stars – and the organized crime figures who dominated the sport, much to his growing disgust. He may have “stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump,” as one sportswriter said, but he also fought his own private demons. In the hands of the award-winning journalist and biographer Mike Stanton, Unbeaten is more than just a boxing story. It’s a classic American tale of immigrant dreams, exceptional talent wedded to exceptional ambitions, compromises in the service of a greater good, astounding success, disillusionment, and a quest to discover what it all meant. Like Suzie Q, it will knock you off your feet.

Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks written by David Young and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unbeaten Paths written by John Fernandes and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fernandes walked on Unbeaten Paths and presents a theologically reflected autobiography on it. He studied in Mangaluru, Pune, Innsbruck and Trier. As Pastor and Professor of Theology in India he committed himself to justice and peace. Living on the Periphery, Crossing Borders, Building Bridges aptly summarises the author's life. This book includes a lived Liberation Theology, examples of ecumenical and interfaith cooperation and commitment to justice, peace and ecology. Thus it is a contribution to narrative mission theology. The Indian artist Jyoti Sahi has illustrated the book.

Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Volume 2 written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbeaten Tracks contains fascinating observational anecdotes of nineteenth-century Japan. This volume continues the journey, including experiences of tribal living.

Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan written by Isabella L. Bird and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Together the story of Arsenal s unbeaten season written by Andrew Allen and published by Portnoy Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Arsene Wenger said he wanted his team to go through a season undefeated, he was roundly mocked, yet just over 12 months later the Arsenal manager guided his team to footballing immortality. The Gunners’ 2003-2004 campaign was extraordinary, and not just because of their remarkable league achievement. From the highs and lows of Europe, to disciplinary charges, pitched battles, the frantic scramble to finance a new stadium, a club record transfer deal in January, and winning the title at the ground of the old enemy, this special collector’s edition book looks back on everything that happened during an unforgettable campaign. Match reports, behind the scenes stories, exclusive interviews and illustrations, stats, tactics, pictures; all the things you know, and lots of stuff you’ve forgotten. Together: tells the story of Arsenal’s ‘unbeaten’ season.

Download or read book An Unbeaten Man written by Brendan Rielly and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a hardened “street dog who learned to play in traffic.” Michael McKeon is now a respected chemist and Bowdoin College professor. When he creates a microbe that instantly cleans up any oil spill, no matter how large, by devouring the oil, that discovery should be the breakthrough that defines a career. But his life is ruined when the mysterious organization The Global Group kidnaps his wife and daughter, forcing him to use his microbe to destroy all Saudi and Russian oil. As Michael races against the clock to save his family, he becomes a threat to the secret efforts of the American, Russian, and Saudi governments to douse the flames in the Middle East. Haunted by the loss of one family and determined not to lose another, Michael will do anything to save his wife and daughter, even if it means throwing the world into chaos. And heaven help anyone, even his own government, who tries to stop him.

Download or read book Teruo Nakamura The Unbeaten Soldier of World War II written by Robert P. Gardnett and published by Bluebird Publications. This book was released on 2022-07-09 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II has given birth to many events in the history of the world. On the one hand brutal and hellish slaughter, on the other hand the desire for human survival. It was as if everything came together at one point. So, as expected, some amazing and heartbreaking things have happened on this huge battlefield. At the same time the worst and the best of humanity; Both sides tell different stories of the world war. In addition to many special events, World War II also introduced us to a number of 'special' characters.This book is about one such special character who remains unbeaten till 1974. Read this fascinating and thrilling true story of the unbeaten soldier of second world war.

Download or read book The Unbeaten Lions written by John Reason and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Unbeaten written by Kim Woodburn and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Kim Woodburn finding fame in her 60s in the smash hit television series How Clean is Your House? with fellow dust-buster Aggie Mackenzie is like living a fairytale. Often she has simply wished that she had never been born, for Kim has overcome horrific emotional and physical abuse both at the hands of her alcoholic mother and her philandering, sexually abusive father. In her brave and revealing story Kim's memories of growing up are not of love and cuddles, but of beatings and random cruelty. Shuttled between the brutal houses of her warring parents, a succession of miserable children's homes and a grim convent - Kim's past has cast a long shadow over her life. But just before her sixteenth birthday she finally made her escape. It has taken decades of hard work, and a wonderfully happy marriage to conquer depression but now she has emerged unbowed and unbeaten as Britain's Queen of Clean.

Download or read book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prince of Providence written by Mike Stanton and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-07-13 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COP: “Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse.” BUDDY CIANCI: “Now I know why they made you a detective.” Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the longest-running lounge act in American politics. In The Prince of Providence, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mike Stanton tells a classic story of wiseguys, feds, and politicians on a carousel of crime and redemption. Buddy Cianci was part urban visionary, part Tony Soprano—a flawed political genius in the mold of Huey Long and James Michael Curley. His lust for power cost him his marriage, his family, and close friendships. Yet he also revitalized the city of Providence, where ethnic factions jostle with old-moneyed New Englanders and black-clad artists from the Rhode Island School of Design rub shoulders with scam artists from City Hall. For nearly a quarter of a century, Cianci dominated this uneasy melting pot. During his first administration, twenty-two political insiders were convicted of corruption. In 1984, Cianci resigned after pleading guilty to felony assault, for torturing a man he suspected of sleeping with his estranged wife. In 1990, in a remarkable comeback, Cianci was elected mayor once again; he went on to win national acclaim for transforming a dying industrial city into a trendy arts and tourism mecca. But in 2001, a federal corruption probe dubbed Operation Plunder Dome threatened to bring the curtain down on Cianci once and for all. Mike Stanton takes readers on a remarkable journey through the underside of city life, into the bizarre world of the mayor and his supporting cast, including: • “Buckles” Melise, the city official in charge of vermin control, who bought Providence twice as much rat poison as the city of Cleveland, which was at the time four times as large, and wound up increasing Providence’s rat population. During a garbage strike, Buckles sledgehammered one city employee and stuck his thumb in another’s eye. Cianci would later describe this as “great public policy.” • Anthony “the Saint” St. Laurent, a major Rhode Island bookmaker and loan shark, who tried to avoid prison by citing his medical need for forty bowel irrigations a day, thus earning himself the nickname “Public Enema Number One.” • Dennis Aiken, a celebrated FBI agent and public corruption expert, who asked to be sent to “the Louisiana of the North,” where he enlisted an undercover businessman to expose the corrupt secrets of Cianci’s City Hall. The Prince of Providence is a colorful and engrossing account of one of the most tragicomic figures in modern American life—and the city he transformed.